Tax-loss harvesting alternatives for VDC

The closest fund alternative to VDC (Cons Staples Sector) is FSTA (Fidelity MSCI Consumer Staples), with a return correlation of 0.99 over the past year. Among single names in the fund's slice of the market, CAG (Conagra Brands) tracks it most closely at 0.60 over the past year. Correlations are computed from daily closing-price returns aligned by trading day.

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Fund stand-ins

Funds covering similar ground. Two funds tracking the same index may themselves be 'substantially identical' for wash-sale purposes.

Ticker	Name	Focus	Match	1Y	3Y	5Y	10Y
FSTA	Fidelity MSCI Consumer Staples	Cons Staples Sector	SECTOR	0.99	0.99	0.99	0.99
XLP	Consumer Staples Select SPDR	Cons Staples Sector	SECTOR	0.98	0.97	0.98	0.99
IYK	iShares US Consumer Staples ETF	Cons Staples Sector	SECTOR	0.89	0.90	0.92	0.91
PBJ	Invesco Food & Beverage ETF	Food & Beverage	INDUSTRY	0.77	0.78	0.83	0.85
RTH	VanEck Retail ETF	Retail	INDUSTRY	0.62	0.63	0.68	0.72
IWM	iShares Russell 2000	Small-Cap	BROAD	0.03	0.29	0.44	0.55
VTI	Vanguard Total Stock Market	Total US Market	BROAD	-0.04	0.31	0.51	0.66
IVV	iShares Core S&P 500	S&P 500	BROAD	-0.04	0.31	0.52	0.68
SPY	SPDR S&P 500 ETF	S&P 500	BROAD	-0.04	0.31	0.51	0.67
VOO	Vanguard S&P 500 ETF	S&P 500	BROAD	-0.05	0.30	0.51	0.68
IWF	iShares Russell 1000 Growth	Large Growth	BROAD	-0.21	0.15	0.38	0.56
QQQ	Invesco QQQ Trust	Nasdaq 100	BROAD	-0.23	0.13	0.36	0.52

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Single-name peers

Single names inside the fund's slice of the market.

Ticker	Name	Sub-industry	1Y	3Y	5Y	10Y
CAG	Conagra Brands	Packaged Foods & Meats	0.60	0.57	0.59	0.53
BTI	British American Tobacco	Tobacco	0.50	0.44	0.46	0.50
ACI	Albertsons	Food Retail	0.44	0.36	0.33	0.30
BJ	BJ's Wholesale Club	Consumer Staples Merchandise Retail	0.43	0.41	0.41	0.35
BF-B	Brown-Forman (B)	Distillers & Vintners	0.43	0.44	0.50	0.58
CENTA	Central Garden & Pet Company (Class A)	Household Products	0.40	0.36	0.41	0.41
CENT	Central Garden & Pet Company	Household Products	0.40	0.35	0.40	0.40
CALM	Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.	Packaged Foods & Meats	0.32	0.26	0.26	0.30
CASY	Casey's	Food Retail	0.30	0.32	0.40	0.47
CELH	Celsius Holdings	Soft Drinks & Non-alcoholic Beverages	0.23	0.24	0.29	0.25
BG	Bunge Global	Agricultural Products & Services	0.17	0.24	0.29	0.38
ADM	Archer Daniels Midland	Agricultural Products & Services	0.17	0.27	0.35	0.50
ANDE	The Andersons, Inc.	Food Distributors	0.13	0.25	0.26	0.34
CART	Maplebear Inc.	Food Retail	0.06	0.19	—	—

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Method: Pearson correlation of daily closing-price returns, Yahoo Finance data, series aligned by trading day, refreshed weekly. A cell is blank when overlapping history covers less than 60% of its window. Correlation is descriptive, not predictive. Wash-sale treatment depends on facts and circumstances — confirm with a tax professional. Not investment advice.